British Academy Television Awards 2000

British Academy Television Awards 2000
Date	14 May 2000
Site	Grosvenor House Hotel
Host	Des Lynham
Highlights
Best Actor	Michael Gambon Wives & Daughters
Best Actress	Thora Hird Lost for Words
Comedy Performance	Caroline Aherne The Royle Family
Best Comedy	The League of Gentlemen
Best Drama	The Cops
Broadcast
Channel	ITV
Viewership	7.85 million
< 1999 BAFTA Awards 2001 >

The 2000 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 14 May 2000. The ceremony was hosted by Des Lynam, aired on ITV and took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.

Winners

• Best Actor
  • Winner: Michael Gambon — Wives & Daughters (BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Aidan Gillen — Queer as Folk (Channel 4); Pete Postlethwaite — Lost for Words (ITV); Timothy Spall — Shooting the Past (BBC Two)
• Best Actress
  • Winner: Thora Hird — Lost for Words (ITV)
  • Other nominees: Francesca Annis — Wives & Daughters (BBC One); Lindsay Duncan — Shooting the Past (BBC Two); Maggie Smith — David Copperfield (BBC One)
• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
  • Winner: The League of Gentlemen (BBC / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: The Best of Ali G (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); People Like Us (BBC / BBC Two); Smack the Pony (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
• Best Comedy Performance
  • Winner: Caroline Aherne — The Royle Family (BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Dawn French — The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One); Sue Johnston — The Royle Family (BBC One); Ricky Tomlinson — The Royle Family (BBC One)
• Best Drama Serial
  • Winner: Warriors (BBC / Deep Indigo Productions / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Births, Marriages and Deaths (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two); Kid in the Corner (Tiger Aspect Productions / Channel 4); Wives & Daughters (BBC / BBC One)
• Best Drama Series
  • Winner: The Cops (World Productions / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Cold Feet (Granada Television / ITV); Playing the Field (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC One); Psychos (Kudos Film & Television / Channel 4)
• Best Single Drama
  • Winner: The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (Granada Television / Vanson Productions / ITV)
  • Other nominees: Dockers (Parallex Pictures / Initiative Factory / Channel 4); Lost for Words (Yorkshire Television / ITV); Sex 'n' Death (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Two)
• Best Soap Opera
  • Winner: EastEnders (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Brookside (Mersey Television / Channel 4); Coronation Street (Granada Television / ITV); Emmerdale (Yorkshire Television / ITV)
• Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
  • Winner: Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict (Sky News / Sky News); The Paddington Crash (ITN / Channel 4); Tonight with Trevor McDonald — Interview with the Lawrence Suspects (Granada Television / ITV)
• Best Entertainment Performance
  • Winner: Graham Norton — So Graham Norton (Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: John Bird and John Fortune — Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4); Sacha Baron Cohen — The 11 O'Clock Show (Channel 4); Michael Parkinson — Parkinson (BBC One)
• Best Factual Series or Strand
  • Winner: The Mayfair Set (BBC / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Manhunt - The Search for the Yorkshire Ripper (Ray Fitzwalter Associates / ITV); The Second World War in Colour (TWI / Carlton Television / ITV); Shanghai Vice (River Film Productions / Channel 4)
• Best Feature
  • Winner: Blood on the Carpet (BBC / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Giants with Nigel Marven (United Productions / HTV West / ITV); Grand Designs (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); The Naked Chef (Optomen / BBC Two)
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
  • Winner: True Stories — Divorce Iranian Style (20th Century Vixen Productions / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Gulag (BBC / BBC Two); True Stories — Kosovo - The Valley (Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions / Channel 4); Malcolm and Barbara - A Love Story (Granada Television / ITV)
• Huw Wheldon Award for Best Arts Programme or Series
  • Winner: This is Modern Art (Oxford TV Company / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: The Abba Story (Iambic Productions / ITV); Hitchcock (Reputations) Alfred the Great / Alfred the Auteur (BBC / BBC Two); The Hip Hop Years (RDF / Channel 4)
• Entertainment Programme or Series
  • Winner: Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Two); Robot Wars (Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions / BBC Two); So Graham Norton (United Productions / Channel 4)
• Situation Comedy Award
  • Winner: The Royle Family (Granada Television / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Dinnerladies (Pozzitive TV / Good Fun / BBC One); Spaced (Paramount UK / London Weekend Television / Channel 4); The Vicar of Dibley (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC One)
• Sport
  • Winner: Test Cricket (Sunset & Vine Productions / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Interactive Live Football (Sky Sports / Sky Sports Extra); Formula One 1999 (Mach1 / ITV); The Open Golf Championship 1999 (BBC / BBC One / BBC Two)
• Innovation
  • Winner: Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: The 1900 House (Wall to wall television / Channel 4); The League of Gentlemen (BBC / BBC Two); Tina Goes Shopping (Blast! TV / Channel 4)
• Lew Grade Audience Award as voted by readers of Radio Times, with listeners of the Jonathan Ross Show on BBC Radio 2 and viewers of GMTV
  • Winner: A Touch of Frost (ITV)
  • Other nominees: Dinnerladies (BBC One); Ground Force (BBC One); The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One); Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC One)
• The Dennis Potter Award
  • Tony Marchant
• The Alan Clarke Award
  • Peter Kosminsky
• Special Award
  • Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley, Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson for The Avengers

See also

• 2000 British Academy Television Craft Awards

References

• Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
• British Academy Television Awards 2000 at the Internet Movie Database.